you have to do it before you know it will work. I have a quick little podcast for you guys

on trust. So glad you're here. Welcome to the show. I'm Emily Shramm, the ultimate meathead hippie.

Welcome to the show. Okay, so I, per usual, was in a bath.

If you don't know me, I am Emily Straum, nutritional therapist, health and wellness person,

lover of all things, creative.

And I am on a journey to be as creative as possible. So that is my sole

intention, really learning what that means, getting some books on creativity, but ultimately

figuring out just like a feedback loop, when am I more creative and when am I not, and what are the trends

within those days? And I love this. I posted about this on Instagram. I was doing a Discover

weekly playlist, and I absolutely love my Discover Weekly. But if you have ever noticed on your Spotify playlist that all of a sudden, I don't

know, I'm very sensitive to music.

So sometimes the song will be amazing and sometimes it'll be horrible.

But it's always horrible at first.

And then with a couple tweaks and feedback, you can tell Spotify pretty quickly with the intelligence of the interwebs songs that you pretty much are going to love every single time.

And so this feedback that you have to give.

So, you know, noticing when am I creative?

When am I not?

Of course, it definitely has to do with my cycles, but even more than that, as a female,

I think that there's something about what lights you up and what doesn't.

And I write about this in my book a lot of what energizes you, what drains you.

So ultimately, been on this journey for a while. But really,

like I talked about in the last podcast, creating space for myself is allowing me to be as creative

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